[help-3dldf] Re: CVS 3DLDF:scanprse.web:451: error: `yyparse' was not declared in this scope

[Laurence Finston]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, address@hidden wrote:

> Having given it some more thought, I think it probably wouldn't do any
> harm.  If I get a chance, I may add another category code: `UNKNOWN_CHAR'
> and make the necessary modifications that would allow other characters to
> be used in `strings'.  

[...]

I've just checked this and it's not necessary to do this.   Characters 
that are being collected for strings are checked for whether they are the 
double-quote character, a backslash, or a newline.  Otherwise, they are 
just added to the string.  I've checked what happens when I used 
characters outside the usual range, that might be used in a UTF-8 
encoding, and was rather puzzled by the results, since an extra character 
was added.  This was one of the characters that appears as the first 
character in UTF-8 encodings.  

This is clearly something I'd have to experiment with.

Another problem, which I've run into before, is the way Emacs handles the 
encoding of special characters.  I've entered characters using their 
numerical values and found that they've changed when I open 
the file again after having saved and closed it.  I'd have to look into 
what's happening here, too.  

It may be awhile before I'm able to do work on this, if ever, so you may 
have to experiment with this yourself, if you want to use UTF-8 encodings 
in strings. 

Laurence